| I dont think so I don't think Apple will renew its contract with AT&T unless it is paid a lot of Money.
To support the reasoning:
The ipod touch updates sucked, basically no real change from prior models. The next gen ipod could essentially be an iphone...why sell 2 things when you can make one, maybe Apple is headed that way and knows it hence the sucky ipod lineup.
Apple is in a dominant position, its hardware costs have come down and no doubt they can make money selling the hardware iphone that can run on all networks, heck the FCC may just mandate this.
If I was the FCC I would push for legislation that forces all phones to work on all networks, and make all phone features able to be turned off e.g. data, voice, txt, mms, etc so that consumers arent screwed. |
